Biographies

Mr. Michael Gene Barnes is Executive Chairman of the Board of Tiptree Financial Inc. He has been the Chairman of Tiptree Financial Partners, L.P. (“TFP”) since its inception in 2007 and served as the Chief Executive Officer of TFP from 2007 until June 2012. Mr. Barnes has been Executive Chairman of Tiptree Operating Company, LLC (“Operating Company”) since July 1, 2013. Mr. Barnes is a founding partner and currently Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Tricadia Holdings, L.P. (“Tricadia”) and its affiliated companies, which are privately held and provide investment management services. Prior to the formation of Tricadia in 2003, Mr. Barnes spent two years as Head of Structured Credit Arbitrage within UBS Principal Finance LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Warburg, which conducted proprietary trading on behalf of the firm. Mr. Barnes joined UBS in 2000 as part of the merger between UBS and PaineWebber Inc. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Barnes was a Managing Director and Global Head of the Structured Credit Products Group of PaineWebber. Prior to joining PaineWebber in 1999, he spent 12 years at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., the last five of which he was head of their Structured Transactions Group. Mr. Barnes received his A.B. from Columbia College.

Mr. Jonathan Ilany is Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He was Co-Chief Executive Officer, Director of Company. He was Independent Director of Tiptree Financial Inc., since August 13, 2010. From October 1, 2014 until February 23, 2015, he was our Executive Vice President, Head of Mortgage Finance and Asset Management. Mr. Ilany served as a director of Rescap, a subsidiary of Ally Bank from November 2011 until December 2013. Since 2005, Mr. Ilany has been a private investor and passive partner at Mariner Investment Group. Mr. Ilany was a partner at Mariner Investment Group from 2000 until 2005, responsible for hiring and setting up new trading groups, overseeing risk management, and serving as a senior member of the Investment Committee and Management Committee of the firm. From 1996-2000, Mr. Ilany was a private investor. From 1982 until 1995, Mr. Ilany was an employee of Bear Stearns & Co. From 1980 until 1982, Mr. Ilany worked at Merrill Lynch. From 1971 until 1975, Mr. Ilany served in the armored corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, and he was honorably discharged holding the rank of First Lieutenant. Mr. Ilany received his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

Ms. Sandra E. Bell is Chief Financial Officer of Tiptree Financial Inc. its subsidiary, Tiptree Operating Company, LLC (“Operating Company”) and Tiptree Financial Partners, L.P. (“TFP”) effective July 1, 2015. Ms. Bell brings over 30 years of business experience in the financial services and energy industries, both as a public company Chief Financial Officer and as an investment banker. Most recently, Ms. Bell served as Chief Financial Officer of Prospect Mortgage, LLC (“Prospect”), a private equity owned mortgage originator and servicer, overseeing all financial activities, including strategic planning, treasury, financial reporting, bank and rating agency relationships and investor relations. Prior to joining Prospect, from 2008 to 2011, Ms. Bell served as Chief Financial Officer of PHH Corporation (“PHH”), a publicly traded, multi-divisional financial services company engaged in the private label mortgage services and fleet management businesses. While at PHH, her responsibilities included treasury, cash management and banking relationships, strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, investor relations, accounting and public reporting, audit and tax. Prior to PHH, Ms. Bell served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, where Ms. Bell managed its development, profitability and risk of its core business lines. She also led the strategic financial management and reporting functions, including SEC reporting; treasury, including funding and capital and risk management; credit services, including the lending and credit risk management functions; and management of a whole loan mortgage portfolio. Prior to assuming her position at the Federal Home Loan Bank, Ms. Bell had been a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Securities, where she had been employed for 13 years. Ms. Bell received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The Ohio State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Ms. Julia H. Wyatt is Chief Operating Officer of Tiptree Financial Inc., effective January 1, 2015. She has served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Tiptree since 2007. Ms. Wyatt is also the Chief Financial Officer of Tricadia. Previously, Julia Wyatt was our Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Operating Company from July 2013 to January 2015. Ms. Wyatt is also the Chief Financial Officer of Tricadia. Prior to joining Tricadia in 2005, from 1996 to 2005, Ms. Wyatt was the Chief Financial Officer of Havell Capital Management (“HCM”), a specialized investment management firm dedicated to managing funds in fixed income markets. During her tenure with HCM, Ms. Wyatt was responsible for all non-investment related aspects of the firm, including financial, legal, regulatory and client services. Prior to HCM, from 1992 to 1996, Ms. Wyatt was a senior member of the fixed income management group with Neuberger Berman. Previously, from 1987 to 1991, she was employed by Morgan Grenfell Capital Management, where she was the Treasurer and Director of Client Services. Ms. Wyatt was with Deloitte & Touche from 1980 to 1988, spending the last two years in the Executive Office Research Department as a Senior Manager. Ms. Wyatt has a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Utah.

Mr. Timothy Schott has been appointed as Principal Accounting Officer of the Company., effective 4 April 2016. Prior to joining Tiptree, Mr. Schott was at Lazard Ltd., a financial advisory and asset management firm, since 2011, as the Director of Accounting Policy for Global Finance, where he led the oversight of compliance with U.S. GAAP, including SEC reporting and approval of the accounting for significant and complex transactions. Prior to Lazard Ltd., Mr. Schott was a partner at Deloitte & Touche Financial Accounting and Reporting Services since 2007, providing accounting consulting services to clients in a variety of industries, with emphasis on the financial services industry, on matters pertaining to the accounting, reporting and valuation for complex transactions. Prior to joining Deloitte’s advisory business in 2004, Mr. Schott spent 11 years as an auditor at Deloitte. Mr. Schott received his B.S. in accounting at Fairfield University.

Mr. Neil C. Rifkind has been our Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Operating Company since July 2013. From 2011 until July 2013, Mr. Rifkind was Special Counsel at the law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and securities law. From 2006 through 2010, he was an associate at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. From 1998 until 2006, Mr. Rifkind was an associate at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Mr. Rifkind has a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and an A.B. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.

Ms. Lesley Goldwasser is Lead Director of the Company. Ms. Goldwasser is a Managing Partner of GreensLedge Capital Markets LLC (“GreensLedge”). Ms. Goldwasser is a Managing Partner of GreensLedge Capital Markets LLC (“GreensLedge”) since September, 2013. Prior to joining GreensLedge, Ms. Goldwasser was associated with Credit Suisse Group AG (“Credit Suisse”) as a Managing Director from September, 2010 to November, 2013, where she had global responsibility for the Hedge Fund Strategic Services unit. Before Credit Suisse, Ms. Goldwasser spent 12 years at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. where she was co-head of Global Debt and Equity Capital Markets units and had global responsibility for structured products. Prior to her tenure at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Ms. Goldwasser spent 12 years at Credit Suisse in a variety of management positions, including responsibility for both the Asset Backed and Non-Agency Mortgage Trading Desks. Ms. Goldwasser is a graduate of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Mr. Paul M. Friedman is Independent Director of the Company. From November 2009 to March 2015, Mr. Friedman served as the Senior Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Guggenheim Securities LLC. From June 2008 to October 2009, Mr. Friedman served as the Managing Director of Mariner Investment Group. Mr. Friedman spent 27 years at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. from 1981 to 2008, most recently holding the position of Chief Operating Officer of its Fixed Income Division. Mr. Friedman serves on the Board of Directors of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. and Great Ajax Corp. Mr. Friedman has a M.S. in Finance and Accounting from New York University, Stern School of Business, and a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

Mr. Bradley E. Smith has been a member of our Board of Directors since July 2013 of the Tiptree Financial Inc. Mr. Smith was a member of the board of directors of TFP from June 2007 to July 2013. He is the founder of Kahala Capital Advisors LLC, a private investment firm, and of Kahala Aviation Ltd. a commercial aircraft leasing company. Prior to Kahala Capital, Mr. Smith worked for almost 20 years in banking in New York and Asia. He was employed from 1995-2000 at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. where he started that company’s credit derivatives businesses in New York; and later as a Senior Managing Director, based in Tokyo managing the firm’s fixed income and derivative businesses. Before Bear Stearns, Mr. Smith spent 10 years with Bankers Trust Company as a syndicate manager in BT’s loan syndications group, where he was responsible for the syndication of some of the largest leveraged loan financings ever completed. Afterwards, he transferred to Tokyo and Hong Kong, where he was involved in BT’s credit trading businesses in Asia. In his last position at Bankers Trust, Mr. Smith was one of the founders of that bank’s credit derivatives business. He is currently on the board of Tricadia Credit Strategies, Ltd. Mr. Smith holds a B.A. from St. Joseph’s University and an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management.

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